Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Psyche: a young artist becomes a mon…

What is the function of the Star within the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: function · What happens: be

This is exam question 2 of lesson 954 «Andersen's Tales, The Psyche: a young artist becomes a monk, doubts his faith, dies, and centuries later his marble Psyche is dug up» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 function	det
4	function	function	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Star	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Star	det
7	Star	Star	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 function	nmod
8	within	within	ADP	_	10 narrative	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 narrative	det
10	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 function	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the function of the Star within the narrative						tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It observes and remembers the life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 observes	nsubj
2	observes	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 remembers	cc
4	remembers	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 observes	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 life	det
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remembers	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	observe	present	It						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	remember	present		the life					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent life=Theme

Option 2

It judges the monk's final sins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 judges	nsubj
2	judges	judge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 monk	det
4	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sins	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 monk	case
6	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sins	amod
7	sins	sin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 judges	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	judge	present	It	the monk's final sins					vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent sin=Value

Option 3

It guides the monk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 guides	nsubj
2	guides	guide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 monk	det
4	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guides	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guide	present	It	the monk					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monk=Theme

Option 4

It narrates the sculptor's rise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 narrates	nsubj
2	narrates	narrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sculptor	det
4	sculptor	sculptor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rise	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 sculptor	case
6	rise	rise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 narrates	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	narrate speech: other	present	It	the sculptor's rise					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rise=Topic
2	rise		the sculptor						nom rise «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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